Noirceur et Fascination de L’abominable: Céline et Conrad
Darkness and Fascination of the Abominable: Céline and Conrad
Author(s): Monica Hărşan Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov
Keywords: fictional geography; mysterious territories; identity; utopia
Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the mysterious side of Mircea Nedelciu’s fictional geography. Often underestimated by the critics in terms of their aesthetic and conceptual value, these “mysterious territories” (utopian “mysterious islands” and “vanishing points”) play, however, an important part in the overall signification system of Nedelciu’s works. In order to prove it, I have identified them and interpreted their symbolic value(s) through recent anthropological and cultural theories concerning the concepts of space and utopia, thus showing that they are a main contribution to the literary representation of the author’s weltanschaaung.
Journal: Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov, Series IV: Philology & Cultural Studies
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 79-86
- Page Count: 8
- Language: French